Part 3 (1/2)
”Lucky house,” put in Jack ”But I don't believe the cottage would mind it the least bit, would you?” and he put his ear to the wall
”No, it says to go ahead Yes? What's that? Delighted? Of course, I kneould be Nice Clover,” and he patted the plain, white wall
”Of course, you want the girls to go out with us in that dandy little launch I knew it! Now, girls, get ready It is time to start”
”And no chaper--” they all protested
”Quit!” shouted Walter ”I have it on good authority that when a girl's brother is along, and when there are twins in the same party, and when there are two fellows, near twins, in aforesaid saer co”
Walter was looking his very best, which was always good, for the brown boy was noner than ever, with the tan of beach sand and sun
Bess wore a oith just a rim of embroidered pink around her plu Then Belle--Belle alore dainty things, she was so perfectly blonde and so bisquelike Her goas of the simplest silvery stuff that Jack described as cloudy Cora, after her auto trip of the afternoon, had ”freshed up” in dazzling white She loved contrast, and invariably, after driving, would don so Her dark hair looked blacker than usual against the fleecy white, and her face was strictly handsorown from pretty to handsome just as naturally as a bud unfolds into a floith the attending dignity
”If Cora thinks it's all right,” weakened Bess
”I don't see e shouldn't go,” replied Cora, ”especially as the boys cannot have the launch for another evening But I suppose that would e of dress,” with a look at the flimsy costumes about her
”Why?” asked Jack
”These--in the evening on the water?”
”Why not? Wear shawls or soht to be dressed up in a launch e don't have to ,” promised Ed ”I am the felloho borrowed the boat”
”Has Nettie a key?” asked Cora
”I guess so,” replied Bess ”We can leave the cellar ----”
”We can do nothing of the sort, Bess Robinson,” interrupted Belle, ”and have that uess not!”
”Oh, your otten him yet?
That's what I call faithful”
”Well, at any rate, I am sure Nettie has her key,” finished Bess ”And there is only one more train If she does not come----”
”I'll sleep in the hammock on the porch,” volunteered Jack ”It would be heaps better than aloas perfection,” reue But after a day's sun like to-day we just put our haated iron roof, and they are done to a turn in the e patterns on the, we'd better be at it,” Walter reet wraps, and shortly returned ready for the trip
Nor were the wraps lacking in beauty or usefulness Cora had a family shawl--the kind that defies description outside of the French-English fashi+on papers It was of the Paisley order, and did not seem to be cut any place; at the same time it fell in folds about her ars Her hood was made fro red star, with the points drawn in Bess and Belle both wore pretty cloaks of eiderdown Bess was in pink and Belle in blue
”Take your guitar, Cora,” suggested Ed ”We will have so”
”And you can play that piece--what is it? 'Love's Hankering?'” asked Jack